Arsenal aim to drown sorrows with Double

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AS THE Arsenal players and officials slunk away from the magnificent Mestalla, tails firmly between legs as the fireworks of the last night of the Las Fallas festival lit up the clear evening sky, there was only one way to look. Upwards and onwards.

A sense of déjà vu, as well as cordite, hung in the air. Valencia had ended Arsenal’s run in the European Cup, as they did two years previously in the quarter-finals, and it was John Carew, the Norway striker, who had again done the damage.